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manure-spreader

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as manure-distributer.

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Examples

  • Can a Swedish librarian find happiness with a man who owns a manure-spreader, or is he just shoveling —?

    2009 August 19 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Just then an empty manure-spreader passed, forcing

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Can a Swedish librarian find happiness with a man who owns a manure-spreader, or is he just shoveling —?

    2009 August « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Just then an empty manure-spreader passed, forcing Crellin, on foot, and

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • This amount can be applied quite successfully with a manure-spreader, and meets the convenience of the man who burns his own lime and does not want to screen it for use in a lime-spreader.

    Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

  • When the application is fairly heavy, a manure-spreader does satisfactory work.

    Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

  • Just then an empty manure-spreader passed, forcing Crellin, on foot, and Forrest, on his mare, to edge over to the side of the road.

    The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

  • He offered to sell anything, from a manure-spreader to a mountainside.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • Groucho dNorth from Whitehorse, Canada writes: As a kid growing up on a farm on Vancouver Island within eyesight of Saltspring, one of my chores was to haul the manure-spreader behind the tractor and fertilize the pastures with an awful smelling mixture made from what came out of the back end of our cows mixed with some water and some of the ooze from the bottom of the compost pile.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • He accused Democrats of "acting like a manure-spreader in a windstorm."

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2009

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